Summary
A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
Timothy Brights doesn’t exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can’t understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds’ Names no longer want to talk to him.
When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it’s the lesser offence of helping himself to some strang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099466536 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099466538 |
| Author: | Tom Sharpe |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Can a book be too funny? Tom Sharpe’s [The Midden] might just be. Too much laughing is required…
Can a book be too funny? Tom Sharpe’s [The Midden] might just be. Too much laughing is required… * New York Times *
One of our best contemporary comic writers- very, very funny * Birmingham Evening Mail *
A major craftsman in the art of farce * Evening Standard *
He is funny, bitter, a danger to his public and should be applauded wildly by all right-thinking men and women * Listener *
There is almost no one funnier * Observer *
Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIII me Grand Prix de l’Humour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.
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